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24 December 2011
The holidays! When we Americans pepper-spray our way through the mall, occupying food courts and ruining our already-overextended credit at stores with names like “Ye Olde Crappe Shoppe”. Our amigos across the pond have their traditions too. Instead of the mall, they go to the Corte Inglés, and instead of sitting on Santa’s lap, they [...]
Posted in Barcelona32 Comments
23 December 2011
Barcelona’s match against L’Hospitalet proved to be a near perfect ending for the first half of this season. It wasn’t the historic 9-0 score that made the match noteworthy. Nor was it the fact that Barça fielded a team of ten outfield players and three substitutes all of whom played in La Masia. What made [...]
Posted in Barcelona48 Comments
23 December 2011
Even though there hasn’t been a BFB article on the matter, you know by now that Barça beat L’Hospitalet 9-0 in the Copa del Rey round of 32 in order to move on in the competition by the skin of their teeth. The rest of the competition was set up by a draw this morning [...]
Posted in Copa del Rey25 Comments
22 December 2011
Not much to say about this one, other than I wish more B-teamers had seen a start. Starting XI: Pinto, Piqué, Puyol, Fontàs, Cesc, Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Thiago, Cuenca, Pedro Bench: Valdes, Muniesa, Sergi Roberto, Dos Santos, Tello Hors d’oeuvres and drinks served at 4:00 pm EST
Posted in Copa del Rey, Liveblog64 Comments
20 December 2011
CDR Preview: Barcelona – L’Hospitalet, Wednesday Thursday 4pm ET, GolTV It’s a return to Spain and the Copa del Rey against inter-city “rivals” L’Hospitalet in a second leg match that is anything but what was expected going in. The first leg ended 0-1 with just a solitary Iniesta golazo (azo-azo-aaaazo) the difference between the teams [...]
Posted in Copa del Rey, Preview100 Comments
18 December 2011
This was the face. Messi has, of late, undergone a degree of scrutiny that might make many believe he just stands around, waiting for the ball before he springs into action. But if you want to see how much this club wanted this title, just look at this image. Better yet, watch this glorious, glorious [...]
Posted in Club World Cup, Kevin Rating Synthesis, Review174 Comments